In Annie's dissertation, she studies the social history of Anglo-German merchant communities in the early modern North Sea region. I particularly work on the Company of Merchant Adventurers of England who settled in northern Germany, most significantly Hamburg, in the sixteenth century. While the economic history of the Merchant Adventurers has been examined by previous scholars,  she is interested in integrating the economic, political, and diplomatic functions of the Merchant Adventurers in Hamburg with their social history as a community. She contends that, in addition to their 'international' functions, the local and social relationships of these merchants living abroad and their strategies of integration or non-integration with their host community can add to understandings of how trans-cultural communities formed and functioned in the early modern world.